Bruce S. Lieberman

Bruce S. Lieberman

Bruce S. Lieberman
Born1966
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology, Paleoecology, Biogeography

Bruce Smith Lieberman (born in 1966 in New York City) is an American paleontologist.

Lieberman received his A.B 1988 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University and Stephen Jay Gould was his undergraduate advisor.[1] He received a Master's in 1991 and a Doctorate,[2] in 1994 from Columbia University, and Niles Eldredge was his graduate advisor.[1][3] During graduate school he was based at the American Museum of Natural History. He did a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship with Elisabeth Vrba at Yale University and a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship with Andrew Knoll at Harvard University. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty at the University of Kansas where he is a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,[4] and a Senior Curator in the University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Institute.[5] He is also Director of the Paleontological Institute and editor-in-chief of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.[6] He spent a year serving as a program officer at the National Science Foundation.[7]

His research especially focuses on macroevolution,[8][9][10][11] and he has considered various topics in this area including support for punctuated equilibrium[12] and the related issue of mechanisms causing stasis,[13][14][15] the evidence for species selection,[16][17] and the nature of evolutionary radiations.[18][19] Other topics he has considered in his research include mass extinctions,[20][21][22][23][24] trilobites,[25][26] the Cambrian explosion,[27][28][29] paleoecology,[30] phylogenetics,[31] and biogeography.[32][33][34] He has been involved with the digitization of invertebrate paleontology collections,[35] including helping to develop apps for fossil identification.[36][37][38] In 2002 he received the Charles Schuchert Award from the Paleontological Society.[39][40] Graduate students advised by him include Alycia Stigall, Erin Saupe, and Cori Myers.[1] Post-doctoral scholars advised by him include Luke Strotz, Michelle Casey, Jonathan Hendricks, Claudia Nunez-Penichet, Rachel Moore, and Rhi LaVine.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Academic Tree". Academic Tree. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  2. ^ Lieberman, Bruce Smith (1994). The evolution of the Hamilton Group fauna and a hierarchical perspective on evolutionary analysis (Thesis). ProQuest 304107464.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
  3. ^ Eldrege, Niles (1995). Reinventing Darwin. Wiley. p. 69. ISBN 978-0471303015.
  4. ^ "University of Kansas, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology". Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  5. ^ "University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute". Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "University of Kansas". Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  7. ^ "National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology". August 21, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  8. ^ "To avoid extinction it's about 'survival of the laziest,' study suggests". CNN. August 22, 2018.
  9. ^ "'Survival of the laziest': Finally, there's a scientific reason to not get off the couch". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  10. ^ Sample, Ian (August 21, 2018). "Forget 'survival of the fittest' – the laziest will inherit the Earth". The Guardian.
  11. ^ "Evolution favours 'survival of the laziest', new study suggests". NZ Herald. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  12. ^ Lieberman, Bruce; Eldredge, Niles (2014). "What is punctuated equilibrium? What is macroevolution". Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE). 29 (4): 185–186. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.005. PMID 24629719 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  13. ^ Lieberman, Bruce; Eldredge, Niles; Brett, Carl (1995). "Patterns and Processes of Stasis in two Species Lineages from the Middle Devonian of New York State". Paleobiology. 21: 15–27. doi:10.1017/S0094837300013051. JSTOR 2401137. S2CID 132594694 – via JSTOR.
  14. ^ Lieberman, Bruce; Dudgeon, Steven (1996). "An evaluation of stabilizing selection as a mechanism for stasis". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 127 (1–4): 229–238. Bibcode:1996PPP...127..229L. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00097-1 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  15. ^ Eldredge, Niles; Thompson, John; Brakefield, Paul; Gavrilets, Sergei; Jablonski, David; Jackson, Jeremy; Lenski, Richard; Lieberman, Bruce; McPeek, Mark; Miller, William, III (2005). "The dynamics of evolutionary stasis". Paleobiology. 31 (2): 133–145. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0133:TDOES]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 25482674. S2CID 16881342 – via JSTOR.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Lieberman, Bruce; Eldredge, Niles; Allmon, Warren (1993). "Levels of selection and macroevolutionary patterns in the turritellid gastropods". Paleobiology. 19 (2): 205–215. Bibcode:1993Pbio...19..205L. doi:10.1017/S0094837300015876. JSTOR 2400877. S2CID 89317771 – via JSTOR.
  17. ^ Lieberman, Bruce; Vrba, Elisabeth (2005). "Stephen Jay Gould on species selection: 30 years of insight". Paleobiology. 31 (2): 113–121. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0113:SJGOSS]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 25482672. S2CID 14801676 – via JSTOR.
  18. ^ Lieberman, Bruce S. (2012). "Adaptive radiations in the context of macroevolutionary theory: a paleontological perspective". Evolutionary Biology. 39 (2): 181–191. Bibcode:2012EvBio..39..181L. doi:10.1007/s11692-012-9165-8. hdl:1808/13649. S2CID 255341742 – via Springer Link.
  19. ^ Simoes, Marianna; Alvarado, Mabel; Breitkreuz, Laura; Baca, Stephen; Cooper, Jacob; Heins, Liam; Herzog, Kaylee; Lieberman, Bruce (2016). "The evolving theory of evolutionary radiations". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31 (1): 27–34. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.10.007. PMID 26632984 – via Elsevier Content Direct.
  20. ^ "Supernova Explosions May Have Caused Mass Extinction 350 Million Years Ago". Newsweek. August 19, 2020.
  21. ^ "Multiple star explosions may have contributed to a mass extinction on Earth". CNN. August 21, 2020.
  22. ^ Dorminey, Bruce (March 5, 2021). "Cosmic cataclysms and the evolution of intelligent life". Cosmic Controversy podcast. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  23. ^ "Forecasting the End". The Weather Channel. March 21, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  24. ^ "Animal Armageddon". Animal Planet. February 12, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  25. ^ "Evolve Eyes". The History Channel. July 30, 2008. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  26. ^ "Evolve Jaws". The History Channel. August 12, 2008. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  27. ^ Fountain, Henry (November 6, 2007). "500 million years ago, jellyfish left their mark in fine sediments". The New York Times. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  28. ^ Brandon Specktor published (October 17, 2017). "Ancient Sea Creature Looked Like a Wine Glass, Died Alone". livescience.com. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  29. ^ Meert, Joseph; Lieberman, Bruce (2008). "The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation". Gondwana Research. 14 (1–2): 5–21. Bibcode:2008GondR..14....5M. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.06.007 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  30. ^ Lynch, Brendan (April 3, 2023). "Steam train history derails ideas about extinction". When Experts Attack podcast. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  31. ^ Wiley, E.O and Lieberman, B.S. (2011). Phylogenetics: Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics (2nd ed.). Wiley. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0470905968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Dorminey, Bruce. "Why Plate Tectonics Remain Key To The Evolution Of Extraterrestrial Technology". Forbes. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  33. ^ Lieberman, Bruce (2000). Paleobiogeography. Springer. pp. 1–227. ISBN 978-0306462771.
  34. ^ Lieberman, Bruce (2003). "Paleobiogeography: The relevance of fossils to biogeography Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 34:51-69". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 34: 51–69. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.121101.153549. hdl:1808/673. JSTOR 30033769 – via JSTOR.
  35. ^ "Fossil Facebook". Central Standard, KCUR 89.3 FM. June 26, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  36. ^ "Why Fossil Hunting is the Next Big Hobby". The Wall Street Journal. March 27, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  37. ^ "There are millions of fossils in Kansas, here's how to find one". KMUW 89.1 FM. March 2, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  38. ^ "Dig it". Central Standard, KCUR. November 19, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  39. ^ "Paleontological Society". Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  40. ^ "RESPONSE BY BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN: For the Schuchert Award, October 28, 2002". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (4): 815–816. July 2003. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0815:RBBSL>2.0.CO;2.